castaway
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) enPR: kăsʹtəwā IPA(key): /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/, /ˈkæstəweɪ/
Adjective[edit]
castaway (not comparable)
- Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
- After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
- Shipwrecked.
- The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
- Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
Translations[edit]
Noun[edit]
castaway (plural castaways)
- (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
- Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
- A discarded person or thing.
- This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
- An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
- These homeless people are society's castaways.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:outcast
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
nautical: shipwrecked sailor
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discarded person or thing
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someone cast out of a group or society
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